Hi there, it's Will here, the god emperor of Michael and Us Nation. A few bits of housekeeping before this week's episode.

First of all, apologies that we were two weeks without free episodes. Luke and I seldom take vacation, but we needed a little time off at Christmas.

You can find more recent episodes on our

Patreon at patreon.com slash Michael and Us, including a wrap-up of the year 2021, as well as a Patron's

Choice episode. The community voted for us to discuss the movie Love Actually, so we tackled

the most pressing political issue of our time,

is Love Actually a good movie or not?

You'll find the answer nowhere else.

That and much more is available there,

and you can expect us to be back in the saddle for our usual weekly free episode going forward.

And now, on with a milestone I once thought we would

never reach episode 300.

Let the eagle soar like she's never soared before. From rocky coast to golden shore let the mighty eagle soar

i don't think i brought it up on the podcast at the time but did i tell you that

i don't know sometime during the pandemic i can't exactly remember when time is a flat circle, et cetera.

I watched the Sophia Coppola joint Mary Antoinette. Oh, yeah. So that is such a strange movie.

I mean, Sophia Coppola, you know, Virgin Suicides is great. I recently saw Lost in Translation for the first time. She definitely has a few

lesser movies. You know, the bling ring is not very good. Well, do you saw that, right? Yeah, I mean,

I don't know. Wait, you're a defender of the bling ring. I mean, not exactly. I don't love the

bling ring, but I don't know. I probably gravitate towards it more than you do. There's something almost defiantly empty about that movie, something sort of defiantly

surface level about the movie to match how surface level all of its characters are that

I almost kind of respect.

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